Wearable Robot Eyeball Spots Invisible Monsters
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Thursday, 24 of September , 2009 at 4:18 am
You might be wondering just why, exactly, one would want to wear an arm-mounted robotic eyeball named Miruko. That looks to be wearing a sweater. Well, it’s obvious: to spot all the invisible monsters that are around you right now. You can’t see the monsters, by the robot eyeball can, and by following its gaze, you can figure out which of your friends are, in fact, monsters. And then you take a picture of them with a special iPhone app that’s connected to the robot. After that, the video doesn’t specify how the game works, but I assume since they’re monsters, you need to do something violent to them in order to score any points.
The game is mostly a proof of concept (but don’t let that fool you, most of your friends really are monsters), showing how robots can help humans interact with a virtual environment or augmented reality. Physically, Miruko is loosely based on another eyeball robot that’s, if possible, even more creepy… Called the Opto-Isolator, we wrote about it on OhGizmo last year.
VIA [ Pink Tentacle ]
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Comment by Joey1058
Made Monday, 28 of September , 2009 at 8:37 am
An eyeball on your arm. And just who is supposed to be the monster??
